Loke on the Abstractist/Concretist Christological Distincton: A Semantic Problem or a Metaphysical Problem?

Originating from the Evangelical Philosophical Society's Panel Discussion at the American Academy of Religion 2017 on themes in Andrew Loke's Christological work, Kryptic Christology, the present article isolates one important issue that began as discussion in Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie between James Arcadi and Andrew Loke on the nature of Christ's human nature according to abstractism and concretism. Upon summarizing the debate, I make two claims. After I take a fresh look at the state of the analytic Christological literature, I, first, suggest that Loke is not consistent with the common descriptions of abstractism/concretism as stated in the analytic literature. And, second, I argue, based on Loke's own words, that he confuses a metaphysical distinction with a semantic distinction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]